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While a number of games have graduated from our up-and-comers list to become apps with more than 1 million users, there are quite a few more to take their places.

At the top is Snowball Fight, a simple snowball-throwing app that encourages people to “throw snowballs” at each other to move up the rankings of snowball-throwers. It gained a big 637,000 to reach 825,000 this week — although this is maybe not so surprising given that the interface rigidly funnels users into “throwing snowballs.” Tis’ the season, apparently, as there’s another app called Snowball Fight! further down on the list.

The second on the list, Addict, has shown up before. It gives you a loosely described percentage score for how “addicted” you are to Facebook, based on how often you use site features. However, it appears to have been taken offline by Facebook. We’re not sure what’s going on here.

So let’s look at some of the especially interesting apps on today’s list. Band of Heroes is one, with 421,000 new users to reach 690,000. At number four, it is at the tail end of at least three role-playing games from LOLapps that have been making their way into the millions. The others have been Diva Life and Yakuza Lords. These games are part of a larger plan by the app developer to promote other types of video games, more here.

Another role-playing game, The Hierarchy, also continues to move up, reaching 363,000 by today.

	Name	MAU	Gain	Gain, %
1.	Snowball Fight	824,535	+673,080	+81.63
2.	Addict	514,724	+514,723	+100.00
3.	Daily Sex Chance	444,855	+444,829	+99.99
4.	Band of Heroes	690,107	+421,478	+61.07
5.	Ask a Friend	350,991	+283,060	+80.65
6.	Fish Isle	289,447	+276,222	+95.43
7.	Bueno & Demonio ?	282,382	+252,452	+89.40
8.	Snowball Fight!	703,692	+249,455	+35.45
9.	What Type Of Girl Are you?	442,849	+222,721	+50.29
10.	The Hierarchy	363,281	+174,596	+48.06
11.	建立你的測驗	236,031	+160,080	+67.82
12.	Piou Piou contre les cactus	361,219	+159,941	+44.28
13.	BigPrize Giveaways	304,907	+140,828	+46.19
14.	WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE?	366,713	+110,198	+30.05
15.	Gift Creator	604,934	+105,513	+17.44
16.	Photo Books	239,267	+102,636	+42.90
17.	What kind of mask do you wear?	488,801	+100,292	+20.52
18.	New Moon	171,334	+99,583	+58.12
19.	Concerts	510,984	+99,169	+19.41
20.	Happy Aquarium Community	827,213	+86,785	+10.49

And we should not neglect the non-English apps, besides the fact that we can’t really read most of them. There’s one called Bueno & Demonio ? which is a Spanish-language quiz app asking if you’re good or bad. There’s another called 建立你的測驗, which Google Translate tells us means “to build your tests.” It appears to be some sort of quiz app.

There’s a pretty neat French-language game, though, called Piou Piou contre les cactus. It’s a cheery, arcade-styel game where you control a flying rubber ducky that you navigate up and down a screen trying to dodge cactuses.

In terms of non-games, a photo-printing app called Photo Books made it on, as did an app made by Buddy Media for the Twilight: New Moon movie coming out soon. And so did iLike’s Concerts app.

And an interesting game-related one also showed up: Happy Aquarium Community, from CrowdStar. The developer appears to be building apps that are actually forums for Happy Aquarium and its other games, although we’re not exactly sure why.